Monday, January 5, 2009
News InsiderAdvantage: DOT, Perdue and a nixed Ga. 400 project
Posted by Thomas Wheatley @thomaswheatley on Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 4:02 PM
Gary Reese, one of the pixel-stained wretches at InsiderAdvantage, pulls back the curtain on a piece he's researching about the state Department of Transportation's vote to kill a Ga. 400 project. He says it's a "blockbuster" and one to watch.
Reese offers a lengthy 1,551-word teaser. Essentially: There's a bigger story behind the DOT board's decision late last year to kill a deal proposed for the "Hospitality Highway."
He says there are a bunch of emails and potentially ghostwritten press releases, too. CL readers might recall a story I wrote last year about Gov. Sonny Perdue's trip to Spain, and rumors that the jaunt would include a sit-down with executives from Cintra, everyone's favorite private toll road company. (Perdue did indeed sit down with the firm.) Reese says Cintra — along with some other big names in finance and transportation — will play a role in his story, as well.
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